The quality or property of corroding or being corrosive, of eating away or disintegrating; acrimony.
Some property characteristic of a corrosive substance, as its taste.
Such property in some immaterial agent.
The action of mocking; ridicule, derision.
Mimicry, imitation, now usually in a derogatory sense; a travesty, a ridiculous simulacrum.
Something so lacking in necessary qualities as to inspire ridicule; a laughing-stock.